Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource
ISBN:
9781684174508
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9780674024496
Serie:
Harvard East Asian Monographs 280
Inhalt:
Preliminary Material -- The Sibao Book Trade and Qing Society -- The Setting: Minxi and Sibao -- The Origins of Publishing and the Production of Books in Sibao -- The Structure of the Sibao Publishing Industry -- “We are all brothers”: Household Division, the Proliferation of Publishing Houses, and the Management of Competition -- Sibao Bookselling Routes -- Sojourning Bookselling and the Operation of the Branch Shops -- Sibao’s “Confucian Merchants” in Minxi Society and the Late Imperial Economy -- The Nature and Sources of Sibao Imprints -- Educational Works -- Guides to Good Manners, Good Health, and Good Fortune -- Fiction and Belles-Lettres -- Sibao’s Customers and Popular Textual Culture in the Qing -- The Diffusion of Print Culture in Qing China -- Transport Routes Within the Min-Gan-Yue Region -- Value of Woodblocks from the Juxian tang and Dawen tang, 1897 -- Genealogical Charts -- Works Cited -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780674024496
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Commerce in Culture: The Sibao Book Trade in the Qing and Republican Periods Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2007 ISBN 9780674024496
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1163/9781684174508
